The announcement that Hillary Clinton would ask her husband Bill for economic advice reveals stark contrast between their supporters and the Americans who agree with Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’ darker vision of the decade

For a speech purporting to challenge Washington’s accepted wisdom, there was much that was familiar about Donald Trump’s first big foreign policy address , not least the customary certainty of its delivery.

Two of the most vocal groups of activists in presidential race will be separated by a single street in downtown Milwaukee

The Republican establishment was reeling on Wednesday as a triumphant presidential primary night for Donald Trump failed to unite the party against an increasingly confident-looking Hillary Clinton.

Dr Krissy Haglund does not care if she is labeled a socialist. Or an ideological purist . Or, indeed, any of the other epithets thrown at Americans who are flocking to support Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. She knows what she is: fed up.

It is an unlikely-looking spot from which to plot a revolution. The third-floor suite in Burlington that serves as the national headquarters for Bernie Sanders’ insurgent presidential campaign in fact looks more like a small-town law office: surprisingly busy for a Friday evening, perhaps, but hardly the den of communist sympathisers some Democratic opponents claim it to be.

Attacks on Bernie Sanders by rival Democrats are likely to turn increasingly to his record on the economy and foreign affairs, according to a new dossier seen by the Guardian that accuses him of sympathising with communists and “not believing in capitalism”.

“Help, I’m a liberal in Alabama,” read one placard waving frantically at the front of the crowd during Bernie Sanders’ latest attempt to break into the south.

Crowded into a forgotten corner of a shopping mall on the outskirts of Des Moines , a band of Bernie Sanders supporters are plotting a ground campaign they hope will make history repeat itself.

Fewer than half of Barack Obama’s biggest promises as president have been kept, according to a Guardian audit published on the eve of his final State of the Union address.

If the chaotic 2016 election has a theme yet, it is the angry howl of middle American anguish. Anti-establishment politicians have so far dominated every stage of the Republican primary (and fared surprisingly well in the Democratic race too) as polls suggest a majority of American voters simply do not trust traditional politicians to tackle perceived economic and physical insecurity.

Executive director of National Nurses United says splitting from Democratic party could be only response to DNC’s refusal to give him crucial voter data

The Bernie Sanders campaign clashed head-on with an election cycle dominated by Donald Trump and the politics of terrorism on Tuesday, as the Vermont senator insisted that candidates needed to focus on the “third world” conditions of American cities instead.

Striding on stage to the triumphant strains of Nessun Dorma , Donald Trump has a surprisingly humble confession to make for someone defying all the laws of political gravity.

Presidential candidate makes argument for his brand of ‘democratic socialism’ in major speech comparing his ideals to those of FDR, but skimps on foreign policy